Comments on: Why I Invented the Now-Next-Later Roadmap https://www.prodpad.com/blog/invented-now-next-later-roadmap/ Product Management Software Thu, 08 Feb 2024 15:36:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 By: Kimi Merroll https://www.prodpad.com/blog/invented-now-next-later-roadmap/#comment-1118 Thu, 30 Nov 2023 18:28:53 +0000 https://www.prodpad.com/?p=78955#comment-1118 Firstly, I really like this approach for all the reasons you mentioned. Also, agree that roadmaps as an organizational tool are challenging and ineffective. However, one thing I see missing in this approach is the future state vision and a coherent story of the execution that gets there. It seems there’s still a solution story underneath the Next / Later planning – maybe this needs to be called out separately?

]]> By: Janna Bastow https://www.prodpad.com/blog/invented-now-next-later-roadmap/#comment-1108 Wed, 15 Mar 2023 09:18:04 +0000 https://www.prodpad.com/?p=78955#comment-1108 Haha, so cool! No, I hadn’t seen that article before today, so not related at all. As I mention in https://www.prodpad.com/blog/the-birth-of-the-modern-roadmap/, the original version that Simon and I sketched out in 2012 was titled Current/Near Term/Future, but functioned as the modern Now-Next-Later roadmap. We built it with renameable headers, and it was actually an early customer who dropped in the terms Now-Next-Later into the time-horizon roadmap we’d made, and we ended up changing the defaults for all.

]]> By: Renato https://www.prodpad.com/blog/invented-now-next-later-roadmap/#comment-1102 Tue, 14 Mar 2023 12:15:17 +0000 https://www.prodpad.com/?p=78955#comment-1102 Hi Janna,

Very insightful article, thank you. Just one question: the first mention I could find about the now/next/later framework dates back to 2012, on Thoughtworks blog (https://www.thoughtworks.com/en-de/insights/blog/now-next-and-later). Are you in any way related to that?

Thanks for the clarification

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